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Anatomy of the YouTube-Pakistan February block

Posted by strom on May 14, 2008

The good folks at RIPE, the European Internet research agency, have put together a fascinating analysis of what happened earlier this year when the Pakistan Telecom tried to hijack the IP address space of YouTube and divert traffic to its own servers. They even have some nice animations of what happened here on their site.

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